Bengaluru, December 01, 2022 (PPI-OT):The High Court of Karnataka has upheld the recent ban imposed by the Modi government on the Popular Front of India (PFI), a Muslim welfare organization, on concocted charges. A single judge bench of Justice M Nagaprasanna pronounced the judgment. The ban was challenged by Nasir Ali, a resident of Bengaluru and the state president of the organization.

The BJP government had issued an order banning the organisation and its institutions for a period of five years with immediate effect on September 28. The ban was followed by a series of raids on the offices of PFI and the residences of its members across India. Senior advocate Jaykumar Patel, who argued for PFI, had submitted that declaring it as illegal was an anti-constitutional move. He said that the order did not specify reasons for declaring it as an illegal organisation.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who argued for the BJP government, said that the PFI was carrying out anti-national acts, a stereotype allegation often levelled against opponents of the Hindutva policies of the BJP government.

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